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hey guys is Brandon minimum from pocketnow.com and this is a video comparison Opera Mini 4 versus Pocket Internet Explorer very curious as to how they compare in terms of rendering a webpage so let's take a look I've got my 18 th tilt here and let's get in on the screen a little closer now I've just hard reset the device so there are no running applications I've got no third-party applications running on this to give you an idea of speed and program memory let's start off in opera to go to opera it's actually not a standalone application you have to run the java application first and then select Opera Mini now if you have it already in program memory you don't have to do this each time so I'm going to go to the address bar and I'm going to go to buy.com because I don't I know that they don't have a mobile version of their website so I want to see the full effect and it asks you this every time you open it for some reason so let's see what happens here it's taking some time I'm connected over Wi-Fi right now but here it loads the entire webpage kind of kind of like an iPhone and you can click and drag on the screen to see the rest of the page and like an iPhone you can double click to bring in you know bring the focus in on a certain part of the page then you can pan around and to zoom back out you click the back button down here which is also connected to the right soft key so not bad that was about seven seconds or so so let's let's get out of here okay let's see how pocket Internet Explorer does okay so I'm gonna go to buy comm and I have Pocket Internet Explorer to set to show in desktop mode so it doesn't try to you know bring the content down to one column which would take an additional amount of time so it's entered let's see how long this takes I'm gonna wait till this step progress bar gets all the way to the right before I stop counting at about 27 seconds now and it's still loading there are some pages that pocket Internet Explorer has a huge problem loading for some reason you know I'm sure by comm isn't made to be viewed on a handheld device but if I'm out of bat out and about and I want to get a price on something well I don't want to be waiting for this long okay it's finally done loading out after about 35 seconds and to view this page it's it's a bit cumbersome so you can you can kind of scroll around like that you can move along the the scroll bars or you can use the the d-pad to move around you can't zoom out you can't zoom in I really have no idea where the gardening section is if I want to get to it I'm assuming it's over on the left somewhere but I really can't be sure so although although opera requires you to go into the java application which takes a little longer to load if it's not in program memory it loads pages much faster and of course it allows for better navigation there's no question as to which of these browsers makes it easier to view a web page opera is definitely the winner I just wish they would make a standalone windows mobile application so that's all thanks